ONE LINER: Tired of all the tales of damsels in distress, Princess Sofia decides
to slay a few monsters herself, with the reluctant help of her guards.

AUTHOR BIO: I'm just you average guy with his heads in the clouds. Raised in a
fairly small town in between Ohio and West Virginia, the things I liked were
usually not exactly what my friends and peers enjoyed. With the support of my
family, I started my extra curricular writing when I was just out of high
school. Things really took off when a group of people fairly similar to me in
my third year of college. I've had my writing published in a few small local
associations, but being a Ravenswood author is by far my most notable
achievement, and Mirain is the work I am most proud of.

BANTER
– STUFF ABOUT YOU

Q: Tell me one thing about each of the four seasons you like. It can
be anything.

A: Winter = Definitely the
snow. But only until Christmas. Then it can go away.

A: I don't care for it, but I need it because of my weakness to sweet
snacks!

BOOKS
– ABOUT THE CRAFT

Q: When did you start writing and why?

A: I've had ideas all my life, but I didn't put them down until shortly
after high school. The reason being that I was fortunate enough to have a
supportive teacher say that they liked my writing style, and thought it was
interesting. I didn't write well enough on the subject to get an 'A', but
apparently I was amusing to read along the way.

Q: Where do you get your ideas?

A: Everywhere. Life, history, other books, Television, video games.
Just about every story I've come across I've wanted to duplicate, or thought
about how I would try to make it better.

Q: How did you come to write your genre of choice?

A: I saw the Lord of the Rings movies and was hooked on the franchise
and Fantasy genre ever since. My favorite movie, book, and video game are all
in the same genre, so it only made sense to stick with what I knew best.

Q: What do you think is the hardest part of writing a book?

A: Starting and continuing. For me the hardest part was to convince
myself to try, even if the end product wasn't that great, but to put it out
there and see what I could do. I have nearly crippling self doubt sometimes and
just have to convince myself to move forward and improve.

BOOKS
- NOW LETS PROMOTE – STRUT YOUR STUFF

Q: What are you working on now? Would you like to share anything about
it?

A: Right now I'm trying to keep my head on straight. Since I got
published, I've sort of dived into the fantasy genre. This means reading more
books, watching more movies, playing more games in Fantasy, and at some point I
need to make it back to the surface, stick with an idea, and write about it.

Q: Do you have a new book coming out soon? Tell us about it.

A: Not anytime soon. I started a few chapter in to another fantasy
story, but I might continue with the Mirain story first. At any rate, it will
probably take me a while.

Q: How can we find you? Do you have a web page, FaceBook page or any
buy links?

Princess Sofia,
just recently turned old enough to have her own personal guards. The guards,
Hector, an unproven, yet ambitious young knight and his sarcastic squire, Mark,
sees this as an opportunity of a lifetime to guard the noble lady from the
safety of her castle...but the lady has other plans. Her home, the land of
Mirain, has prospered under years of peace, but the princess becomes alarmed at
the news of possibly superstitious events at the outskirts of the kingdom. Even
more alarming is that few knights bother to acknowledge them, preferring to
instead compete in tournaments for personal glory and recognition. The princess
drags her unwilling guards to investigate the reports of monsters in the far
off corners of the realm. Soon, they discover a much bigger problem than anyone
anticipated.

EXCERPT:

As Hector began to pull himself up, the troll recovered and set its
remaining eye on Sofia. Seeing the creature focusing on her, the princess took
a step back and tried to light the matches she needed to make the fire for her
spell. Drawing his sword, Hector leaped off the rock and slashed the troll
across the back. His blade managed to draw the creature's black blood, sending
it into a fury. Without looking at the troll, Hector kept low and rolled
backwards out of the range of it's club. The heavy wood weapon slammed into the
rock Hector had been standing on, cracking it and causing the top half to
crumble on top of the knight.